Kevin Solway wrote:keenobserver wrote:What Id like to know is, why this clinging to (what to people like me seems) nonsense, not worth the trouble. Why this apparent hatred of Truth? To fight indefinitely the idea of a=a?
What in the psychology or experience of an individual would bring about this malady that we so often see from seemingly bright men, often good young men? And why they never convert?
It seems such a common phenomenon in our times, does it come from the teachings of academics, or do early negative experiences play a significant part?
Fear.
I think that's all it is. Fear of where it might lead.
The whole world is insane - so what will happen if you start thinking and finding absolute answers? You will be on your own, totally isolated from the rest of the world, and everyone will think
you are insane.
If you're not strong enough to shoulder that, then you just have to go with the herd - and denying that A=A is one way to do that.
Sure, we all have dealt with fear with various outcomes.
However, If the prize is very great and in sight friends do not compare.
So I reckon the prize is not very well in sight, and the curiosity is lacking to edge closer, balanced by fear.
Yeah, a lacking of the explorers heart, the investigator.
But many with a thirst for knowledge refuse ultimate knowledge, especially if that knowledge brought many gifts for the ego.
Seems like a combination of factors, traits. You got to have the right combination.
I used to need to belong, but I can say as you grow closer to God things and people become much less important (to the ego)
and life without them becomes finer in so many ways.
Yeah, balls come in handy, perhaps its the testosterone.
Theres a point where the view is too tempting to go back.
I suppose if you dont get that far you'll never go the rest of the way.
I could add, may be that fear would be much less by adulthood if a good masculine example was present in the early years.
The mammas-boys may have the hardest time of it.
With fathers absent so much these days its no wonder.